Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Book Id: WPLBN0000578735
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 1.73 MB.
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands
Author:	Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


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Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it necessary to trust to hearsay or probable conjecture. On the other, there is necessarily much more reserve; nor are the results of the actions, nor even their comparative importance, so clearly discernible as when there has been time to ripen the fruit.